Hi all! So here's an update since last time - after this site crashed out and deleted the last half an hour spent on the last entry as I tried to save it.... - We are currently at our new hostel and drinking beer from a vending machine! It's true, you can buy most things from a vending machine here. Anyhoo a huge can of beer is costing us 200 ye...

Thursday July 10 I write this right now, sitting on a bullet train, or Shinkansen, going from Tokyo to Kyoto, and wow this thing is FAST. So, you know that feeling when a plane is just about to take off, when it reaches that peak accel**ation and you know you're going pretty damn fast? Well, that's exactly what the bullet train feels like right ...

Krispy Kreme's!!!!!!!!!! Mmm fresh off the conveyor belt! so yummy! Well it's Megan here and I figured it was my turn to chat. Our trip is doing very nicely and we are managing to get almost everything that we want done. With the exception of one minor detail, "Kawaii Kutsu" local lingo for cute shoes!! Trust me to ask how to say cute shoes befo...

Memoirs of a Gaijin Chapter 1: Arrival 12th April 2007. A landmark in my own personal lifeline. After years of yearning, fantasising and false starts here I was at Heathrow facing a 12-hour flight to Tokyo. Accompanying me was a dear friend and fellow Japophile. It was very rare for him to show any kind of excitement but today was very different...

T3 for the first time. Its big and new but not that different from T2, I think. It's so hard to impress anyone these days. It was not a full flight- surprising said the 'counterboy'. Didn't sleep much on the flight-eventhough we have 2 free seats between us-so Em slept most of the flight lying down across 3 seats. It was very bumpy for 2 segment...

Tokyo 23rd-27th of november 2006 well its only been a weekend since me and the boys have been travelling,so far so good!had a wicked time in Tokyo,i definetly reccomend it theres so much to do and so much to see the city is amazing,bright lights,the people and the japanese women are sooo fit,ive never been to such a friendly place in my life but...

It's been another exhausting day here in Tokyo. Tons of walking around again -- we must have logged another 20km going from district to district. We're both really in need of foot transplants! This is what we get for working desk jobs... Today we went on two trips that were primarily of interest to me. The first stop that we made was at the Akih...

World's Largest Fish Market By the time we got there, the auction was already over (They open at 4am.) But we get to see the tail end of the fish market process where workers busily packing various seafood for shipping. We weren't supposed to be at the warehouse but we went anyway. No one seemed to care. They just walked past us like we weren't ...